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Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but Nextcloud (or Owncloud): https://nextcloud.com/ https://nextcloud.com/ It's basically self-hosted Dropbox, wit

Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but Nextcloud (or Owncloud): https://nextcloud.com/ https://nextcloud.com/ It's basically self-hosted Dropbox, with clients for all mayor Desktop and Mobile OSes. I set it up for a little team project. Just one account, and a shared folder where people with a password could upload. I think we will move to individual accounts at some point. But it supports much more. It has a calendar similar to Google Calendar and I've switched to it. It also has plugins for image galleries, contacts, LibreOffice in the browser, collaborative editing like EtherPad, and so on. I was very sceptical, but it is really well done.

jancborchardt 9y ago
Nextcloud designer here, thanks for mentioning and good to hear you’re happy! :) Everyone is welcome to contribute at https://github.com/nextcloud/ https://github.com/nextcloud/ :) And in case anyone is in Berlin, we’re having our annual conference at the moment! https://nextcloud.com/conf/ https://nextcloud.com/conf/
- johnwaynedoe 9y ago
  Thank you! I was not ready to make the jump to self hosting my own Dropbox alternative until I saw what a polished program you and your team put together. Great work!
photonios 9y ago
yes! I am also running this. The whole family keeps their stuff in my instance. I also keep my password database in it. Do you expose it over the internet or access it through a VPN?
- tombrossman 9y ago
  Same set up here, and it's very easy to install and use. Non-technical users have no problem using it either as the desktop and mobile sync clients are intuitive and reliable. I have mine configured as a public website with most data protected by the inbuilt encryption, and I use EncFS directories to sync more sensitive data across machines. Some things require client-side encryption and this is easy to achieve.

jancborchardt 9y ago

Nextcloud designer here, thanks for mentioning and good to hear you’re happy! :) Everyone is welcome to contribute at https://github.com/nextcloud/ https://github.com/nextcloud/ :) And in case anyone is in Berlin, we’re having our annual conference at the moment! https://nextcloud.com/conf/ https://nextcloud.com/conf/

johnwaynedoe 9y ago
Thank you! I was not ready to make the jump to self hosting my own Dropbox alternative until I saw what a polished program you and your team put together. Great work!

photonios 9y ago

yes! I am also running this. The whole family keeps their stuff in my instance. I also keep my password database in it. Do you expose it over the internet or access it through a VPN?

tombrossman 9y ago
Same set up here, and it's very easy to install and use. Non-technical users have no problem using it either as the desktop and mobile sync clients are intuitive and reliable. I have mine configured as a public website with most data protected by the inbuilt encryption, and I use EncFS directories to sync more sensitive data across machines. Some things require client-side encryption and this is easy to achieve.